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Selections from the British Poets - Page 32
1840
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Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign ...

John Moore - 1792 - 584 pages
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ;...year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden sm i I'd , And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild; There,...rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he fan. his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd tochange his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or...
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L'homme des champs; ou, Les géorgiques françoises

Jacques Delille - 1800 - 284 pages
...where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, « The village preacher's modest mansion rosé. <i A man he was, to all the country dear, „ And passing rich...from towns he ran his godly race, « Nor e'er had chang'd or wish'd to change his place; « Unskilful he to fawn , or seek for pow'r ; « By doctrines...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...EAR yonder copse , "where once the gardea smilM , And still where many a garden flower grows will!; There where a few torn shrubs the place disclose)...country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year: Rcmoie fr .m towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er hal chang'd, nor wish'd to change ti» place : Unpractis'd...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...once the garden souTd, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shruhs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place;...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There,...country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Romote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd...
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